A VISION IN WHITE

Yeah right, a sausage bursting out of casing is more like it.  With summer comes the need to purchase a fresh snowy white pair of jeans.  Whether cropped, skinny, stretchy or crisp, sporting dark inky colored jeans is a faux pas during the warm months (at least for me.)  However, for many people it is tough to find a flattering pair of white jeans.  Not everyone can look like Ali Macgraw in the beach scene in LOVE STORY.  So I started taking a poll.  Whenever I would see somebody wearing an interesting pair of white jeans, I would inquire and rush to the store to try them on.  Recently, I was at my son’s T-Ball game and there was a girl wearing a flattering pair of white jeans with a white Lacoste.  Jean Crush!  I had to run out to buy those jeans.  I thought I had solved my dilemma quickly and affordably.  They were the skinny stretch crop from GAP and I looked bottom heavy to say the least.  I then attempted the jeans at J Crew, same thing.  The thighs looked thundering.  As I was getting dressed  each day in my fall colored (grey, camel, and dark wash)  jeans, I was feeling frustrated.  The temperature was rising and I lwas resembling the fall cover for Vogue  Magazine.  The summer Hampton look, although I spend the better part of my days in The San Fernando valley, is what I was striving for.  Finally, I blocked out a few hours of my day and cruised to Bloomingdales which has a large section devoted to white jeans only.  I went solo as I am my own toughest critic and I did not need a friend rushing me.  I selected close to 20 pairs, brought them to the dressing room, and hunkered down until I found the perfect pair.  What is perplexing about denim is that even though a particular brand of denim is touted as your go to brand, not every cut by the designer is flattering.  For example, I recently discovered the Citizens of Humanity slick skinny jean.  Normally, Citizens were not my jean of choice as I preferred the cut of J Brand..  They have become my current go to jean.  Alas, I tried on the white version of my favorite J Brand and Citizens cuts.  No go!  I looked like a sausage on the verge of bursting out of its casing.  Finally, with a heap of jeans on the floor of the dressing room… I found my “money” pair.  The soft skinny yet stretch pair of white jeans by SIWY was the one for me.  I purchased two pairs and checked white jeans to purchase off of my to do list.  Now all I will have to worry about is keeping the jeans sparkling white.